What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Take The Extra Step And Do Whatever Is Necessary To Make Yourself Unique. Be The Absolute Best At What You Take Pleasure… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Maybe this is just some stupid romantic South American idea, but I need you to understand-darling, for you, I am even willing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates Copy Share Image